Life's a Gamble, so lets take a Chance Restoration Project

Long John Silver out on his travels with his friends Albert(RNLB Helen Wycherley's owners) coffee mug. While his was at the Zetland Lifeboat museum, Long John Silver met his new wife to be Fran. Tricia acting as a chaperone  Then Simon the father of the groom had his photo taken to make it a family photo. The happy couple having their first photo together as  newly married couple The best man and the bridesmaid  The group photo of the wedding party at Scarborough Lifeboat station.   

The first two photos are of the condition of the starboard side locker fronts were before they were removed from Chance's main cabin at the beginning of the restoration when we were removing as much as possible to lighten Chance for her delivery home to Essex. You can see that the interior was in a tried condition and the varnish work had lost a lot of its shine. Fast forward three years and with a lot of pain-taking work and remaking broken or missing or rotten parts we have been able to rebuild much of what was lost over time. This bit was the hanging locker front at the aft end of the main cabin to hang your foul weather clothes.  Here is complete starboard side locker front now rebuild and ready for the restoration team to do their magic with the varnish brushes and give the complete frontage its many coat of varnish, so it will be ready to refi when the rest of the major hull repairs are done. This photo shows the hanging locker door sitting in the opening to show how much as ...

  These updates are of the restoration of Chance our James Silver Western Isles Motorsailer, now that we have Chance at Titchmarsh Marina in Walton on the Naze Essex. The restoration can and will be easier to do has Chance is now very close to my own workshop and small yard. Starting work on the forecabin starboard removing the ribs and showing round the new inspector round the restoration project which he is going to oversee. Titchmarsh Marina will be Chances' home for the next four to five years while we restore her to her former glory with the aid of our family and friends. Once we have her back afloat we hope to sail her back to the Silver's boatyard in 2028 which will be 80 years a since Chance was launched at the Boatyard.